Mao Zedong will henceforth be called Mao Tse-Tsung. Guang Dong will be Kwantung and the controversial Xinjiang will once again be called Siangkang.
We hope that this will make China sound scarier and make people more supportive of our efforts to do regime change.
If this happens I'm going to go onto the lathe of heaven and just break the damn thing
Taiwan already does use the Wade-Giles system a lot of the time
this won't do anything as anglos don't know enough about China or Chinese for this to make any difference to them
slow sweeping shot of Si Jenpyong (:xi-gun:) staring out over a crowd of millions of PLA soldiers with a yellow filter and menacing, oriental sounding drone music
Does Wade Giles sound like any kind of dialect at all? Like I know it's completely wrong compared to Mandarin but what about Cantonese and others?
Wade Giles was designed to be a transliteration system for all Sinitic dialects, not just mandarin (which is why you only see, eg, t and t’, but not d, a voiced consonant only found in other dialects such as Shanghainese). It’s a cool idea for linguists I guess, but really impractical, since most people would never need to transliterate words from two dialects at the same time.
It's based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin from what I know
